{"id":40370,"date":"2019-08-05T21:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40370"},"modified":"2019-08-05T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T21:23:22","slug":"kashmir-in-lockdown-as-india-reveals-plan-to-change-states-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40370","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir in lockdown as India reveals plan to change state&#8217;s status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New Delhi (CNN)<\/cite>Indian-controlled Kashmir was in lockdown Monday, with tens of thousands of new troops deployed into what is already one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/09\/30\/asia\/kashmir-explainer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">most militarized places in the world<\/a>, as a number of prominent politicians were placed under house arrest and New Delhi announced contentious changes to the way the territory is administered. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A broad communications blackout left many people without access to the internet and phone services across the territory, with measures also in place to prevent public meetings.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The politicians under house arrest include at least two former chief ministers of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/india\/omar-abdullah-mehbooba-put-under-house-arrest-internet-services-snapped-as-kashmir-remains-tense-2257393.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to CNN affiliate CNN-News18<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi (CNN)Indian-controlled Kashmir was in lockdown Monday, with tens of thousands of new troops deployed into what is already one of the most militarized places in the world, as a number of prominent politicians were placed under house arrest and New Delhi announced contentious changes to the way the territory is administered. A broad&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}